An audience with Lord Adonis: ‘Philip Hammond should resign’

The Labour peer and prominent Remain campaigner sees little room for compromise on the big question of Brexit

Danilo Agutoli

By

Lucy McNulty

April 16, 2018 Updated: 3:29 p.m. GMT

Lord Adonis sees no sense in beating around the bush.

Committed pro-Europeans in the Square Mile should demand that the Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond resign immediately and admit to the country that Brexit is “national economic suicide”, he says.

“[Hammond] should resign and tell the country quite straightforwardly that Brexit...